Chapter 47

Crack!

Yushinyun crushed the guard's neck with his foot as the guard writhed on the ground. The path from the entrance of the underground corridor to where his footsteps reached was stained red with blood and corpses. All the guards guarding the first floor of the underground prison had been killed.

The primary contributor to his ability to kill numerous people in succession without causing any disturbance was none other than the second effect of the 'Bat Lord' title, 'Silence Wave.'

[Silence Wave]

Eliminates all sounds within a 5-meter radius of the title holder.

Yushinyun invited his enemies into a silent space. Even as their comrades were torn apart behind them, they failed to notice and met the same fate.

Yushinyun surveyed the silent underground prison with a cold, sunken gaze. Over a hundred women were imprisoned there. Upon confirming that some were struggling on the brink of death due to drug addiction, he realized he had correctly followed his memories of the future.

This was one of the ten underground prisons that Tai Lingzhou had established in Hangzhou. While the publicly known main source of the Nine Dragon Gang's funds was the protection money from all the shops, including brothels and inns in Hangzhou, the actual main source was drug trafficking and human trafficking.

To avoid leaving traces, they secretly kidnapped vagrants and refugees wandering the streets at night and sold them to wealthy individuals with perverse tastes. They also manufactured drugs with addiction levels dozens of times higher than opium and tested them on women who were not considered valuable. Occasionally, women with spiritual abilities were selected to be used as sacrificial offerings.

The funds accumulated from drug trafficking and human trafficking were the source of the vast military funds that poured out endlessly during the Blood Sect's activities.

Yushinyun used qi extraction to remove the toxins from those whose lives were in immediate danger due to severe drug addiction.

"Ugh."

"...Sigh, please take me to the afterlife."

Those who regained consciousness soon saw Yushinyun, whose bone mask made him resemble a grim reaper, and begged for an end to their suffering.

Seeing this, Yushinyun wanted to free them immediately, but after much deliberation, he stood up. If he freed them now, the enemies who recognized the commotion might cause these people to be killed.

'Please wait a little longer. I will come back to avenge you.'

Yushinyun began to move deeper into the prison.

Part 2

'Hmm?'

Gongsun Qiu, who managed the third underground prison in Hangzhou, was tilting his head in confusion.

He wondered if he had been mistaken, but he was not. It was definitely past the time when his subordinates should have brought the selected sacrifices.

However, no matter how long he waited, he could not hear the footsteps of his subordinates.

'...Something seems off.'

He was the leader of the Youlong Team, one of the nine combat teams leading the Nine Dragon Gang. His senses, which had saved him in countless battles, were now issuing a sharp warning.

Just as he decided to go and check it out himself,

Squish!

Gongsun Qiu's senses suddenly screamed.

"Danger!"

He urgently warned his subordinate, but

Squish!

Thud!

Before he could, a sharp spear pierced through his subordinate's body, causing a short, final scream before the subordinate died.

"Intruder! Everyone, prepare for battle!"

Clang!

Clang!

The Youlong Team members, who had detected the anomaly, quickly drew their weapons.

'...Bones?'

Gongsun Qiu's expression showed confusion as he realized the nature of the spear that had pierced his subordinate's body.

But it was only for a moment.

A poisonous aura spewed from Gongsun Qiu's hands, which were tinged purple. This was the Five Poison Yin Palm, which had earned him the nickname 'Poison-Horned Youlong.'

Squish!

Squish!

The bodies of his subordinates and the door were melting away where the poison touched.

A clear human figure stood in the darkness beyond.

"Who are you! Reveal your identity!"

Gongsun Qiu, ready to launch another poisonous palm, shouted loudly. He wanted to turn the intruder into a pile of poison immediately but restrained himself.

'Damn! If Lord Fang finds out that the location of the underground prison has been exposed, I'm a dead man.'

He had to interrogate the intruder to find out how he discovered the location.

He focused his inner energy on the Yongquan acupoint on the soles of his feet. If the intruder tried to escape, he would use his agility to catch him.

However, contrary to his expectations,

Thud, thud.

The intruder walked out calmly in front of them.

"..."

The pupils of all the Youlong Team members, including Gongsun Qiu, dilated.

A strange figure wearing a black robe that covered his entire body and a goat bone mask appeared before them.

Even those who had spent their lives in blood and corpses felt a chill run down their spines at the sight of this intruder, whom they had never seen before.

Unlike his subordinates, Gongsun Qiu quickly expanded his senses to gauge the number of the intruder's forces.

But,

'What?'

He could not sense any presence behind the intruder.

His eyes widened in surprise.

'...Could he be alone?'

He almost laughed out loud.

Who were they?

They were the combat team of the Nine Dragon Gang, the dominant force in Zhejiang Province.

Gongsun Qiu sneered at Yushinyun.

"Tsk, tsk, walking into hell alone. You must be out of your mind."

Upon hearing that the intruder was alone, the Youlong Team members' eyes lost their confusion and began to emit a thick killing intent.

Swish!

Swish!

In an instant, several Youlong Team members rushed forward and blocked the entrance where Yushinyun had emerged, forming a circular encirclement.

In this situation, where anyone would have given up on life, Yushinyun spoke in a low voice.

"I've decided. I will kill every single one of you with my own hands."

The Youlong Team members, including Gongsun Qiu, were speechless at this absurd statement from a rat in a trap.

'Madman!'

Just as they were about to curse,

"..."

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Suddenly, the air above the intruder's head began to distort.

And soon, from that vortex,

Squish!

Squish!

Dozens of sharp bone spears, identical to the one that had pierced his subordinate, began to fly.

"Ah!"

"What, what is this!"

The bone spears were piercing the limbs of the Youlong Team members.

The proficiency of the bone spear had rapidly increased from its initial B grade to A+.

The hardness, size, and speed of the bone spears had improved by at least two to three times.

'So, he has some skills.'

Gongsun Qiu clicked his tongue at the significant casualties among his team members.

'But is this all he has?'

That was all.

It seemed that Yushinyun's advantage would continue, but soon the Youlong Team members began to counterattack.

Crack!

Crack!

The Youlong Team members were qualitatively different from the subordinates of the Gold Gang. Even without specific orders from Gongsun Qiu, two or three of them worked together to avoid or destroy the flying bone spears.

Realizing that the bone spear was ineffective, Yushinyun stopped using the skill.

Swish!

"The magic has stopped!"

"Kill the spellcaster!"

As the rain of bone spears ceased, the Youlong Team members, each wielding their weapons, rushed at Yushinyun. They recognized him as a spellcaster and knew that the time he needed to prepare for another spell was his greatest weakness.

Swish!

'He even brought a sword!'

They sneered at Yushinyun as he drew his sword when they arrived.

But in the next moment,

Squish!

Squish!

The sound of slicing echoed, and all those who had underestimated Yushinyun were now dead.

Gongsun Qiu was stunned at the sight of his subordinates, who had been reduced to chunks of meat in an instant.

'A spellcaster using sword qi?'

The energy used by spellcasters and the inner energy of martial artists were fundamentally different. They could not be combined like yin and yang.

There were no martial artists who used spells or spellcasters who used martial arts in this world.

Yet, this man was openly mocking that truth.

Gongsun Qiu's subordinates, who also knew this, began to approach more cautiously, like moths to a flame.

"Even if he's just a beginner at the peak of his art, the Youlong Team will use a relay attack!"

The Youlong Team members were all top-notch experts at the peak of their abilities. They began to attack Yushinyun one by one, rotating to gradually deplete his inner energy. They also intended to find his weaknesses by exposing him to a variety of martial arts.

Clang!

Clang!

However,

The situation began to make no sense.

Yushinyun, as each Youlong Team member attacked, began to counter with different martial arts.

But this was a misconception.

Yushinyun was using only one martial art, the Twelve Strikes of Thunder Cloud, but it appeared to be many different martial arts because he used appropriate inner energy for each opponent.

The various inner energies he had absorbed through qi extraction were now shining.

Martial arts are typically a combination of a cultivation method and a set of techniques. Using techniques based on a different cultivation method often resulted in performance that was only half as effective as the original.

However, Yushinyun had the Immortal Qi. When different cultivation methods and techniques clashed, forming impure energy, the Immortal Qi's purification and full absorption functions would convert it back into pure energy.

Thanks to this, he could use the Twelve Strikes of Thunder Cloud with 100% efficiency, even with inner energy from different cultivation methods.

The combination of thunder qi, yin qi, and demon qi with the Twelve Strikes of Thunder Cloud produced entirely different destructive power.

'Great!'

Yushinyun, who had put his plan into action for the first time, realized that his thoughts were perfectly aligned.

It couldn't be any other way.

['Twelve Strikes of Thunder Cloud' and 'Ice White Yin Energy' have been successfully harmonized.]

[The proficiency of 'Twelve Strikes of Thunder Cloud' has significantly increased.]

['Twelve Strikes of Thunder Cloud' and 'Yin Soul Ghost Spirit' have been successfully harmonized.]

...Omitted...

[The achievement of the martial art 'Twelve Strikes of Thunder Cloud' has sharply increased.]

[The achievement of the martial art 'Twelve Strikes of Thunder Cloud' has reached 5 stars.]

[The characteristic 'Supreme Swordsman' has been obtained.]

[The skill 'Swordsman (S-)' has been obtained.]

Numerous system messages were floating before Yushinyun's eyes, indicating that he was becoming stronger in real-time during the battle.

Yushinyun, the martial arts expert from his previous life, was now a top-ranked player.